River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-21

and with a magnanimity broad enOug
TO embrace our whole country, dee
enough To bury in oblivion the bitter
ness and hate Of past strife, build o
the spot suggested monument TO in
mortalize American valor and demon
stIate American magnanimity. Let Oh
whole country Join with the Nations
Government and every State in the Tn
ion. Complete it, If possible, by tn
18th anniversary of the battle; send ou
YOUR invitations. and my word for il
Gettysburg will witness such gather
ing as the whole world has seldom seel
Its hills and valleys dotted with whit
tents. not filled with angry combatants
ready TO hurl each other 10 destruction
hut with the highest type Of American
manhood, ready to join hands in a tru
aud hearty reconciliation which shall
make US again united and happy peo
pie Do this. and write the name O
American higher on the roll of tru'
fame than YOU could have done ha,
You been able TO write yourselves vic
toriou> on every battlefield Of the war
| cannot but believe that this suggestion
viii commend itself To the good mel
everywhere ia our broad land. and il
properly carried out will do more TO re-
store true friendship in the sections
I than any other one thing that could be-
done. Let US NV country men embrace
/ the opportunity. and make one page in
/ American history which shall shine
/ with a lustre unsurpassed by any re-
corded since the world began.
Col. A. X. Mcclure extended well
come from the State of Pennsylvania to
the Virginians.
COL. AYLETT's SENTIMENTS.
Col. VIM. X. Aylett. VINO succeeded
I Gen. Armisiead as commander of the
brigade upon the death of Armistead.
having been chosen TO respond on be-
half of the State of Virginia to Penn
sylvania's welcome. paid Col Mcclure
warm tribute for his greeting.
Among other things he said:
utter 1t rs a sentiment that comes
yelling up from every bosom of Vir-
ginia and the South. that the man who
would rekindle again that feeling
which filled our land with death and
tears and grief and mourning. with
graves and suffering. Is not only I'M
worthy Of the high title Of American
citizen. but even Of that Of human be-
ing. and should find no home or friends
ON earth or in heaven. Let no politi-
elan. for selfish and unworthvpurposeS.
fan the dead embers OF fratricidal strife.
but let the great, warm and generous
heart of our Nation, with the thrOb of
the ocean. as if moved by al the tenn
pests of Gods whole universe. speak its
Numbered condemnation of any effort
50 vile, wicked and unworthy.
He said that the assassination of
Lincoln was a great calamity for the
South, and now that the storm had
passed an passion subsidized, the South
loves and reveres his memory and that
of the great Captain who was kind and
maguanimouS in the hour of victory ut
Appomattox. Then he continued:
WHAT MATTERS THE FLAGS.
There Is not true man at the South
to-day bat who feels as if he would like
To stand AT the tombs of Lincoln and
Grant. to plant a flower and to water it
with a manly tear, In the presence Of
a feeling like this. too sacred and deep for
uttcrance. what matter il who shall
keep the battleflags? They passed into
your hand in brave and manly combat
untouched by di>honor. after "A baptism
in blood that made the gray jacket a
mantle of glory, and we are as willing
your people should keep them a ours.
They are in the md of our Govern
ment and brethren. to whom our honor
should be dear as their own. Never
again will our battlehags wave in strife
They have gone down forever. but they
went down in glory and in honor. They
are dead. and we Iowa and follow alone
now the living flag which floats from
Kew West To Behring Straits-from
Bunker Hill To san Francisco.
On July THIRD.
The morning was spent in sight
seeing and going over the field. One
house on Baltimore street. IN which a
Confederate she'll is sticking. attracted
more than usual notice. In the after
noon the veterans collected 1t their
respective headquarters, and the pro-
cession took up its march toward the
place where. a years before, the
Philadelphia men had held their posi-
ton against the famous Pickett's Di-
vision Of Longstreet' Corps, Army of
Northern Virginia.
~ rrEr- ..pr apnv .N--rpw
The procession proceeded out Balti-
more street to the place where the
Emmittsburg road joins it. ana which
was the outer post of Union sharps-
shooters during the fight. Out the
Emmittsburg road to the Battlefield
Avenue the wearers of the blue badges
and white helmets proceeded. Slowly
they made their way through the dust
which covered the roads. At length
they reached the Bloody Angle. =
The band struck up ..Rstlly Round the
Flag. Bows" and the old Philadelphia
Brigade was once more on the ground
it 80 nobly defended against such
overwhelming odds.
A few moments after O'Clock the
6gth marched to the stand erected for
the purpose. and there the assemblage
was called to order by Col. O'Brien,
who introduced Adi't A w McDermOtt.
who read a list of the killed and
wounded Of the 69th. He then presen-
ted Joshua T. Owen. who delivered the
Grafton During his speech the General
said that the commander of the Philadel-
phia Brigade. when he placed them at the
stone wall in such an advanced position,
knew they would stay there and hold
that position till death He referred to
the manner in which they got the name
of PADDY Owens Regulars" and
pointed out Gen. Brown as the man
who so called them. He said he hardly
knew what to say 10 the men who, -
wears ago to-day, emerged from the
woods 800 yards away and made the
terrible assault on the Union line. LET
them place their monument where they
wish. he continued. ''ArmiStead and
several others pierced our line, and
here within few feet of this spot be
fell wounded unto death. The renowned
phalanNes of Alexander would not have
dared to make the charge Pickett's men
made. = In closing he called for three
cheers for Pickett's Division a proof
Of their friendship. They were given
with a will. a were three cheers foI
zen Owen